Nov 8, 2017
I love group work. Students hate it–until they see what it CAN be. I found students to be so “allergic” to group work that I avoided it in my first years at NMC because students simply don’t want their grades negatively impacted by their peers....
Nov 7, 2017
Part of the Non-Violent Communication that Marshall Rosenberg teaches includes understanding anger. Anger, Rosenberg believes, is never the problem. The problem is that the angry person is supporting what he calls the Domination System. The Domination System...
Oct 31, 2017
The most interesting thing about doing NVC in Michigan is how many people want to say they’re sorry as part of the NVC process. However, NVC doesn’t require that you say you’re sorry, especially when you haven’t done anything wrong. So, here’s a scenario to...
Oct 30, 2017
With knowledge comes responsibility. Knowledge left unchecked or unshared can turn inward and devour the pupil. Some pupils wish to be devoured in order to avoid sharing knowledge. This, again, is the ego and thinking others cannot be trusted with knowledge. While...
Oct 23, 2017
Violent communication in our society is a result of training. We yell at each other, and we blame, judge, dominate and evaluate. According to Marshall Rosenberg, this form of communication is not our natural state. Rosenberg, founder of The Center for Nonviolent...
